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Intelligent Transportation
Society of the Midwest
State and regional chapters of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) provide a key role promoting and enhancing public safety and community welfare by: fostering research and development; implementing programs to reduce motor vehicle deaths and injuries; improving mobility; and promoting a system of safer, more economical, energy efficient and environmentally sound highways and other surface transportation through use of advanced technology.
In 1994, the members of the Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin three-state consortium responsible for developing the Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee Corridor Program Plan, with encouragement from FHWA and the Argonne National Laboratory, formed ITS Midwest, the first multi-state chapter of ITS America. The ITS Midwest chapter was formally chartered by ITS America in Chicago on February 22, 1995, and recognized at the ITS America meeting in Washington D.C. in mid-March.
In 1998, ITS Midwest spearheaded an effort to bring the
2002 ITS World
Congress
[
PDF,
292KB] to Chicago, prevailing over the competing host cities
of Atlanta, New York, and San Francisco. The Chicago World Congress
provided an opportunity to showcase regional ITS to the world and
included 36 technical tours at 13 state-of-the-art transportation
facilities in the three-state area. An evening reception for the
World Congress sponsored by ITS Midwest at the historic Adler
Planetarium on the beautiful Chicago lakefront capped off the
chapter's successful effort.
In May 2003 at the ITS America Annual Meeting, ITS Midwest was
awarded the
2002 Outstanding State Chapter award[ PDF,
154KB], and in all, the
Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee corridor captured 4 of the 9 Best of ITS
awards. That same year, ITS Midwest attendance at its own annual
meeting swelled by 50% over previous years, a validation of the
chapter's vitality and perceived value to members.
In 2003-2004, work continued on a new strategic planning effort. In
2004, Wisconsin also split away from ITS Midwest to start their own
state chapter, which provided further impetus to restructure and
refocus ITS Midwest. This culminated in the release of the
Strategic Directions Plan
[ PDF,
561KB], which was approved by the board of
directors in March 2005, and established a new organizational
structure and focus for ITS Midwest. A key element was a smaller
board of directors and an empowered set of committees to refine the
goals and execute the plan. Each committee has two co-chairs -- one
on the board of directors to retain board oversight, and one from
the organization at large. This provides a mechanism for more
involvement by the membership in chapter activities, which in turn
increases the human capital available to implement programs.
In 2005, ITS Midwest turned 10 years old, and celebrated our decade of achievements at our 2005 Annual Meeting. The same year, the organizational changes began to take hold, and a more refined and focused organization began to emerged. Like the ITS industry it nurtures and serves, ITS Midwest is today a wiser and more strategically-focused organization, fully committed to bringing about the full realization of the benefits of ITS to improve the safety, efficiency, and security of our transportation system.
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Officers:
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Committees:
Refer to our
Strategic Plan for a description of these committees.
For more information about getting involved, contact
the ITS Midwest president or
secretary. |
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ITS Midwest Bylaws Amendment
The most recent ITS Midwest Bylaws [ PDF,
60KB]
were adopted on March 21, 2007. The Bylaws amendment creates a
new organizational structure for the merger of ITS Midwest
(Illinois & Indiana) and ITS Mid-America (Ohio & Kentucky). |
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